Sports GK GK Questions with Answers – Page 6

CISM holds championships in many sports through the year and gathers them every four years into the Military World Games, whose first edition was held at Rome in 1995 and which carry the motto of friendship through sport.

The Afro-Asian Games were conceived as a meeting of the champions of Africa and Asia, and the first edition was held at Hyderabad in 2003, with the main events at the Gachibowli stadium complex built for the purpose.

The Winter series began the next year, in 1960, at Chamonix in France, so option B is the right city attached to the wrong series, and that swap is the usual way this question is made difficult.

FISU was founded in 1949, has its headquarters at Lausanne in Switzerland, and runs both the Summer and the Winter World University Games along with a long list of World University Championships.

The twelfth edition of the South Asian Games was held in 2016 across two north-eastern cities, with Guwahati in Assam as the main venue and Shillong in Meghalaya hosting part of the programme, and India finished at the top of the medal table as it has in almost every edition.

The regional games of the subcontinent began in the Nepalese capital in 1984 under the name South Asian Federation Games, commonly shortened to SAF Games, and the shorter name South Asian Games was adopted in 2004.

The International Olympic Committee set this band when it created the Youth Olympic Games so that the event would reach adolescents at the stage when they are choosing whether to continue in sport, and the age is counted as of the year of the Games.

The Youth Olympic Games were proposed by Jacques Rogge, then President of the International Olympic Committee, approved in 2007, and the first Summer edition was staged at Singapore in 2010 for athletes aged fifteen to eighteen.

He won the British Open ten times in a row and went unbeaten in competitive play for over five years from 1981, a run of hundreds of consecutive match wins that is often called the longest winning streak in any professional sport.

The Czechoslovak runner won all three distance events at those Games, and the marathon was the first he had ever run; no athlete has repeated the treble.

The German driver won his first two championships with Benetton in 1994 and 1995, moved to Ferrari and won five consecutive titles from 2000 to 2004, giving him seven in all.

The fight took place in October 1974 at Kinshasa, then the capital of Zaire and today the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is how the bout came to be called the Rumble in the Jungle.

At the Montreal Olympics, the fourteen-year-old Nadia Comaneci was awarded a perfect score of 10 on the uneven bars, the first such mark in Olympic gymnastics; the scoreboards of the day could not display it and showed 1.00 instead.

Bradman played 52 Test matches between 1928 and 1948 and scored 6,996 runs with 29 centuries, leaving him with an average of 99.94, a figure no batter has approached since.

Born Cassius Marcellus Clay in Louisville in the United States, he won the light heavyweight gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics, took the world heavyweight title from Sonny Liston in 1964 and changed his name to Muhammad Ali soon afterwards.

The American swimmer competed at five Olympic Games and finished with 28 medals, of which 23 are gold, far ahead of anyone else in any sport.

At the World Athletics Championships held in Berlin in August 2009, Usain Bolt of Jamaica lowered his own world records to 9.58 seconds over 100 metres and 19.19 seconds over 200 metres, the two fastest times ever recorded.

The Brazilian forward, whose full name was Edson Arantes do Nascimento, was part of the Brazil squads that won the World Cup in 1958, 1962 and 1970, and no other player has three winners' medals.

New Delhi hosted the tenth edition of the Hockey World Cup in 2010 at the stadium named after Major Dhyan Chand, the same ground that had been built for the first Asian Games in 1951; Australia won that tournament.

Built in Uttar Pradesh near Delhi, the Buddh International Circuit held the Indian Grand Prix in 2011, 2012 and 2013, after which the race was dropped from the calendar; Sebastian Vettel won all three editions.